Word: championing
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...describe this week's 94th Kentucky Derby is to say that it bears a certain resemblance to a political campaign. The original favorite was Ogden Phipps's Vitriolic, last year's two-year-old champion and winner of $429,896, who has since developed weak knees and will sit out the race. Hirsch Jacobs' Wise Exchange made a good showing in the primaries, winning two big winter stakes in Florida, but he is footsore from his strenuous campaign (27 races in two years) and has also been scratched. There is no shortage of favorite sons: Derby...
Princeton, which won the Ivy title last year, has a 0-5-1 record through its early contests. But the poor record reflects the caliber of the opposition more than Tiger weakness. All the Princeton games were against nationally-ranked teams. The one tie was with NCAA co-champion Maryland, which is favored to retain its NCAA crown...
...papers both owned by Scripps-Howard, it is almost incomprehensible that they are the targets of such criticism. Ever since the 1954 Supreme Court decision banning segregation in the schools they have urged upholding the law of the land. Press-Scimitar Editor Edward J. Meeman was a champion of Negro rights from the 1930s until he retired in the early '60s. Both current editors Frank Ahlgren of the Commercial Appeal and Charles Schneider of the Press-Scimitar, are members of the city's biracial commission, which has tried to smooth the way for peaceful desegregation in Memphis...
...Vicenzo's blunder cost him $5,000 in ready cash-the difference between first place and second-plus the possibility of endorsements and other benefits that accrue to a Masters champion and may be worth as much as six figures. It also cost the 45-year-old Argentine, winner of more tournaments (upwards of 120) than any player in history, perhaps his last chance at the title that would crown his 30 years as a pro. Distraught as he was, Roberto took the loss with grace. "There is so much pressure," he said, "that I lose my brain...
...lacross team had showed great promise in its early matches of the season as it rolled over M.I.T., Holy Cross, and Penn, but this is its second straight loss this week and it still must face last year's Ivy champion, Princeton, on Saturday...